Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:39:31PM -0600, chethcoat@oplink.net wrote:
>> As to the main problem, hmmm.  Maybe if you could run it under GDB
>> we might get a better look at the error.
>
>You mean run setup.exe under GDB?  Will try it shortly, but:
>
>> I was going to suggest you try a snapshot of setup.exe with debug
>> information, but something appears to be wrong with the website, I
>> couldn't find the setup snapshots anywhere.  So try it with the one
>> you've got anyway, maybe it'll show us something useful.
>
>> Also, do just verify that you aren't having some bizarre network
>> problem or BLODA connecting.  What do you see if you run "wget -S
>> http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst";; in a bash shell?
>
>First, using my browser to get to http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst, I get
>a "not found on this server" error.  I think this file might be
>elsewhere.

Then something is seriously wrong (assuming you didn't just include the
quote mark when you tried it in your browser).

>Second, you may be right about network issues.  I've had a lot of
>problems in the past keeping wget working due to constantly changing
>proxies, security, etc.  Anyway, right now, wget appears totally
>nonfunctional.  Here are a couple of lines copied off my Cygwin
>terminal:
>
>$ wget -S http://www.tug.org
>$
>
>This test and others tell me that wget is getting nothing at all.
>Does setup.exe use wget?

No.  setup.exe really can't use any cygwin programs or it wouldn't
be able to bootstrap a cygwin installation.

But, then, does "cygcheck /bin/wget.exe" show any missing DLLs?  That
could be the cause of non-response from wget.

cgf

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